For horror fans up and down the UK, the highlight of the calendar is Frightfest and since its first-ever event in 2000, it has gone down as one of our best-known film festivals, with a reputation that extends beyond our tiny little island and deep into the American heartland. Genre […]
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Frightfest 2018 | Lifechanger
For horror fans up and down the UK, the highlight of the calendar is Frightfest and since its first-ever event back in 2000, it has gone down as one of our best-known film festivals, with a reputation that extends beyond our tiny little island and deep into the American heartland. Genre favourite Guillermo […]
Frightfest 2018 – The Dark
For horror fans up and down the UK, the highlight of the calendar is Frightfest and since its first-ever event back in 2000, it has gone down as one of our best-known film festivals, with a reputation that extends beyond our tiny little island and deep into the American heartland. For their […]
London Film Festival 2017, Part 4: Hanging Up
Maybe I wasn’t adventurous enough. But the way the LFF advertises its slate of films, it’s too tempting not to be. See, there’s an ‘official competition’, but unlike major film festivals like Cannes or Venice, the most hotly anticipated offerings aren’t in it, for the most part— London likes its […]
London Film Festival 2017: Part Three – the big apple in the big smog
Listen. I have come unstuck in Good Time. It’s the start of the festival, and there are too many press screenings to count, all going on at the same time. So I have to make hard choices. Inadvertently, I chose 4 films about New York in a row. This would […]
London Film Festival 2017: Part Two, and the big day approaches
Lean on Pete is Andrew Haigh’s latest, and also the name of an ageing racehorse; Charley the name of the boy who befriends him while working a summer job for a run-down man named Del (Steve Buscemi) who owns run-down horses piloted by run-down jockeys— they didn’t start that way, […]
London Film Festival, Part 1: Pre-Gaming
Last Sunday night, on a whim, I took the bus into central London to watch David Lynch’s The Straight Story projected on 35mm film at my favourite independent cinema, the Prince Charles just off Leicester Square. It was almost 9pm, but the square was as crowded as ever. There’s more […]
Obon Brothers (2015) Character drama that peeks at the Japanese film industry (Festival Review)
Media that peers behind the curtain have provided the world of cinema with countless icons and classics. There is something about being allowed to observe the highs and lows of a world so close yet so alien which has made it such a rich well for filmmakers globally. Of course, […]